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ekejjedjndbdon Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

How true is that? Can police search a house without warranty in NYC say and have that entered as evidence (plus anything that lead from that) in court?

ekejjedjndbdon Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

Why not? I thought this was easy enough at least on apple.

ekejjedjndbdon Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

I wouldn't have thought burning man death rates would be higher, so does this make it a strawman argument :)

But yeah. No one is driving or on a bike or in a hospice at burning man.

ekejjedjndbdon Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”

That's a good point although I would prefer to have a deterministic conversion that handles historic changes. But I get the point and having a source of truth for the conversion could be better as it won't be affected by bugs in the conversion of deemed right. It does mean maintaining two values though.

ekejjedjndbdon Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”

If the UTC is derived why store it (unless just as a performance concern e.g. materialised view type of thing)

ekejjedjndbdon Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

If they exercises the rights would they have HODLd to now anyway prolly not. They might have $1m in SP500 index though or similar.